Memories

In 1996, I was a student at a public high school in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. All students were required to take a sex education workshop. I sat in the school library and listened to the teacher talk about the evils of sex and how you would definitely get pregnant and/or contract an STD if you did it. To drive the point home, there was a graphic slide show of pictures of actual STD outbreaks and symptoms. I vividly remember the teacher saying that genital warts could get as big as a cauliflower. She probably meant a floret, but in my head, she definitely meant a whole head of cauliflower. 

That memory has stuck with me all this time, but it is not the only one. I find myself returning to snippets of time, mental images, small experiences, and emotions tied to specific objects. This series tries to capture and explicate those strongest snippets of memory that appear unimportant but won’t go away. 

Both the objects and backgrounds in these images relate to specific flashes of memory. The titles offer an idea of each memory but, rather than spoiling it for the viewer, I hope they will find themselves examining their own memories.